The outfielder, selected 37th overall in last June's amateur draft, was visiting Baltimore's major league spring training camp on Monday when manager Buck Showalter introduced him to Hall of Famer Frank Robinson. Showalter asked Hart if he knew who Robinson was. The 19-year-old did not.

Showalter has embraced Orioles history in his time as the team's manager and wanted to teach Hart a lesson.

"I said, 'OK, I want tomorrow by this time I want a page on Frank Robinson,'" Showalter explained. "I said, 'You go home, you research it and you come back tomorrow and have it on my desk.'"

A few hours before the Tuesday deadline, Showalter was asked whether Hart had completed the assignment. He emphasized Hart had to bring the paper to him and couldn't email it.

Hart quickly complied with Showalter's request. As the son of a high school principal, Baltimore's manager knows about the importance of completed homework assignments.

"I wasn't nervous at all, but I knew he was serious," Hart told MASNsports.com. "He's a serious man. He takes his job as strictly business, and I respect that. Whatever he says, it's done and that's a big plus. You've got to show him respect all the way."

Robinson's number 20 was retired by the Orioles after he led the team to four World Series, and he won the Triple Crown in 1966 when he was voted AL MVP. He became the major leagues' first black manager with Cleveland in 1975 and later returned to Baltimore as a coach, manager and executive.

He currently is MLB's executive vice president of baseball development.

Hart learned that and a lot more about Robinson in his project.

"I knew he was a Hall of Famer, but specifically, I didn't know anything about him," Hart said, "but I did my research and he's accomplished a lot."

Trout, Angels agree to $1M, 1-year deal

TEMPE, Ariz. – Mike Trout has his first seven-figure contract. Up ahead is what figures to be a nine-figure deal.

"It feels good," Trout said Wednesday after agreeing to a $1 million, one-year contract with the Los Angeles Angels.

The salary is the highest for a one-year major league contract for a player not yet eligible for arbitration who wasn't coming to the big leagues from Japan or Cuba or wasn't required to have a larger amount because of the maximum cut rule. Ryan Howard earned $900,000 with Philadelphia in 2007 and Albert Pujols with St. Louis in 2003.

Trout will become eligible for arbitration after this season and could become a free agent after the 2017 World Series. The sides are thought to be discussing an agreement through 2020 in the $150 million range.

Trout wouldn't talk about the possibility of a multiyear contract.

"I just go out there to play the game," he said. "If the money is where it's at, that's where it's going to be."

Trout was voted AL Rookie of the Year and finished second in MVP voting in 2012, when he hit .326 with 30 homers and 83 RBIs, and led the majors with 129 runs and 49 steals. He was second again to Detroit's Miguel Cabrera in MVP voting last year, when he batted .323 with a .432 on-base percentage, 27 homers, 97 RBIs and 33 steals.

Rangers expect QB Wilson to work out

SURPRISE, Ariz. – Russell Wilson is getting on the diamond again.

The Texas Rangers expect Seattle's Super Bowl-winning quarterback to participate in a team workout and then be in uniform for a Cactus League game when Wilson visits camp Monday.

Wilson tweeted last week his plans to visit the camp.

The Rangers selected Wilson from the Colorado Rockies in the Triple-A portion of baseball's December draft at the winter meetings.